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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 13, 2011 1:12:57 GMT -5
Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 4:30:48 GMT -5
Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/ My brother and I get along spiffingly. Have done since the day he was born. <3 He may get sick of his geeky older sister when he hits puberty in a few years, but I'll always love him. =3 As for my older sister, she and I are much closer in age (2 years) and until she hit puberty we got along really well. We were both quiet, polite children and then she got teenage angst and I couldn't understand why my sister didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. It was 'cause I wasn't cool. xD Nowadays we're not very close, and we have the odd argument, but we're pretty peaceful people. When I was a teenager we'd have our moments, but mostly I would just let it go and allow her to "win" in the name of peace, because Ray's the sorta person who just won't back down from an argument. I hardly see my step-siblings. *shrugs* |
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 13, 2011 9:23:02 GMT -5
Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/ My brother and I get along spiffingly. Have done since the day he was born. <3 He may get sick of his geeky older sister when he hits puberty in a few years, but I'll always love him. =3 As for my older sister, she and I are much closer in age (2 years) and until she hit puberty we got along really well. We were both quiet, polite children and then she got teenage angst and I couldn't understand why my sister didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. It was 'cause I wasn't cool. xD Nowadays we're not very close, and we have the odd argument, but we're pretty peaceful people. When I was a teenager we'd have our moments, but mostly I would just let it go and allow her to "win" in the name of peace, because Ray's the sorta person who just won't back down from an argument. I hardly see my step-siblings. *shrugs* Wow, I've apparently been mean to my brother since he was born. My mom told me that I was super jealous of him when I was younger, with the whole "You like him better than me!" thing. xD I still think that sometimes....I'm trying to avoid him these days. I stay on the computer, he hides in his room, and we don't talk. It's working well, though I can't say it's good for sibling relations xD I've always wanted a sister, to be friends with and chat and all that. My mother and I aren't really close, so there aren't a lot of family members I can talk comfortably with =\ I'm kinda looking forward to my college years, so I won't have to deal with sibling problems. |
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Post by agedbeauty on Jul 13, 2011 16:38:30 GMT -5
When my husband moved out of the house, he and his brother (four years younger than him) started getting along much better. Sometimes siblings aren't meant to live in close quarters. It doesn't make you a bad person.
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 13, 2011 18:49:11 GMT -5
Mmkay, I guess that's true. I don't think I'll ever get along with my brother and there's probably no forcing it. My brother and I are both stubborn and refuse to let the other have the last word, so it'll probably smooth out when I leave for college and we've no time to fight..
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Jul 14, 2011 21:03:34 GMT -5
Eee, Storyteller's Club. =D Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/ My mom told me that, when I was about two, she and my dad were considering having a second child, so they asked me if I wanted a younger brother or sister. Apparently I said, "Can I have an older brother?" XD But when I was told that that wasn't an option, I decided that having a younger sibling would be cool too. I was super-excited after my brother was born - there's this videotape of him as a baby sitting on the sofa, still too young to move around much by himself, and me playing peek-a-boo with him. =D We had a lot of good times playing together as children, although we did fight over silly things like lego blocks and potato chips. But my parents were in general very fair - every time they bought me something, they would buy my brother something too, and vice versa. After I went to college though, we kind of drifted apart. We're Facebook friends, and I hang out with him when I go home to visit, but our relationship is definitely very different now. Sometimes siblings aren't meant to live in close quarters. It doesn't make you a bad person. Yeah, you don't get to choose what kind of person you want to be your sibling. I guess I was lucky. =3 |
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 14, 2011 23:44:39 GMT -5
My parents didn't bother asking. I just remember when my brother was a few days old and my parents were fussing over him 24/7. I was told to do my work and allowed to play games or watch TV, but I was extremely jealous of the attention he received. It felt as though my parents were bored of me and had someone new to take my place.
Well, it's been practically a decade, and I can't say my attitude towards my brother has changed much. =/
On another note, does anyone have ideas on how to counter insomnia? >> I stay up wide awake until like, midnight, and then it takes me a long time to actually fall asleep. I wake up in the middle of the night and lie there, wide awake. And then I get up at around six. It's been almost a week with this pattern, and I'm fairly sure it's not doing any favors for my health.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 5:07:22 GMT -5
Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/ *sneaks in despite not being a Story Teller* My older sister and I are... let's just say I don't really want to talk about it too much. She's been battling anxiety and stuff since she was seven, and then there was the time where she was anorexic. Now she's battling a lot of other stuff as well, so, I guess that plus our differences led to our somewhat utter disdain for each other. Not all the time though. I myself am guilty for injuring her on some occasions, so I suppose I can't really say I don't deserve the rift between us. As for insomnia, I have no idea.  I'm a victim of it sometimes too what with my erratic sleeping times. |
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 15, 2011 5:35:15 GMT -5
Do you all get along with your siblings? xD (As in, back when you were my age) My brother and I fight constantly; it gets so bad, my mom has threatened to separate us and force one of us to move somewhere else =/ *sneaks in despite not being a Story Teller* My older sister and I are... let's just say I don't really want to talk about it too much. She's been battling anxiety and stuff since she was seven, and then there was the time where she was anorexic. Now she's battling a lot of other stuff as well, so, I guess that plus our differences led to our somewhat utter disdain for each other. Not all the time though. I myself am guilty for injuring her on some occasions, so I suppose I can't really say I don't deserve the rift between us. As for insomnia, I have no idea. I'm a victim of it sometimes too what with my erratic sleeping times. Feel free to chat here ^_^ I don't think this is strictly "Storytellers Only"--anyone can join in~ Anyways, it's interesting that you say that, because you're the little brother in your family--and that's probably the closest I'll get to words from the... the "other side", for lack of a better word. For me, though, the biggest part of it is the sibling rivalry. Who's smarter, more talented, who does mom and dad like better. Stuff like that. My sleep times are so messed up. I sleep at midnight, rise at six, and I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep again. Funnily enough, just a few weeks ago I was sleeping thirteen hours a day  How'd I jump from thirteen to less than six? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 7:03:38 GMT -5
*sneaks in despite not being a Story Teller* My older sister and I are... let's just say I don't really want to talk about it too much. She's been battling anxiety and stuff since she was seven, and then there was the time where she was anorexic. Now she's battling a lot of other stuff as well, so, I guess that plus our differences led to our somewhat utter disdain for each other. Not all the time though. I myself am guilty for injuring her on some occasions, so I suppose I can't really say I don't deserve the rift between us. As for insomnia, I have no idea. I'm a victim of it sometimes too what with my erratic sleeping times. Feel free to chat here ^_^ I don't think this is strictly "Storytellers Only"--anyone can join in~ Anyways, it's interesting that you say that, because you're the little brother in your family--and that's probably the closest I'll get to words from the... the "other side", for lack of a better word. For me, though, the biggest part of it is the sibling rivalry. Who's smarter, more talented, who does mom and dad like better. Stuff like that. My sleep times are so messed up. I sleep at midnight, rise at six, and I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep again. Funnily enough, just a few weeks ago I was sleeping thirteen hours a day How'd I jump from thirteen to less than six? Okay then, I guess I'll come in here occasionally.  I've had that same thing occur to me as well, but I eventually sprung back a little. Although it's more because my father wakes me up before I go back into perma-sleep mode.  |
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Jul 15, 2011 8:18:55 GMT -5
Blargh. I sympathize with you about the messed-up sleep times. I went to bed at around midnight last night, and then I woke up this morning at 6am and couldn't go back to sleep. I lay in bed until about 7:30 before I got up, but I'm still feeling... wide awake but not energetic/refreshed. =/
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 15, 2011 12:44:02 GMT -5
I'm trying to use the said insomnia to my advantage, though. I'm doing a lot of work in the early hours of morning xD Good thing it's Saturday tomorrow and I don't have summer school~
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Post by Torey on Jul 25, 2011 5:41:44 GMT -5
I have trouble sleeping as well. I do use it to my advantage though. The early hours of the morning when I absolutely cannot sleep is when I feel I can write decent stuff. Sometimes I just write and write without stopping and before I know it, an hour has passed and I've wrote a whole page on MS Word. When I get up early though, I find that I can write decent too. Unfortunately, I don't get up early that often XD I need to shower and then get ready for work. Boo. Work  |
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Post by Mel ♪ on Jul 31, 2011 10:41:26 GMT -5
My sleep times are so incredibly messed up these days xD I fall asleep every afternoon for 2-3 hours and then I don't sleep until past midnight (again). I just hope I can keep this up when I go back to real school |
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Post by Torey on Aug 18, 2011 18:44:00 GMT -5
I am soooo tired. I have one really late night and it messes me up. Usually, I'm used to horrific sleeping patterns, but just lately I've been going to bed quite early. I finally fell asleep at 2am last night (after trying for about 2 hours!) and today I felt like I'd been run over by a truck more than once...you get the picture...I'm tired as heck XD
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I'm a victim of it sometimes too what with my erratic sleeping times.
How'd I jump from thirteen to less than six?
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